Introduction to Data Science: Honors

3 Hours

An introduction to the principles and practice of data science for business applications. Explore tidying, summarizing, and visualizing data; statistical computing in R; linear regression; introduction to predictive modeling and out-of-sample model validation; uncertainty quantification using resampling methods; basic probability models, including the normal and binomial distributions; and statistical hypothesis testing. The equivalent of three lecture hours a week for one semester.